Thursday, March 13, 2008

Slides from Introduction to SQLAlchemy tutorial

My slides from this morning are up: http://utahpython.org/jellis/sa-intro.pdf. The about 1/3 of the class did not have SA installed yet, and the network was down. Fortunately, Mike and Jason brought 5 flash drives and by the time we got to the first exercise everyone was up and running.

This was my third time doing a three-hour SQLAlchemy tutorial. Differences from (last time) include

updated for the 0.4 series

removed almost all the SQL-layer material

added a section on the new relation filtering api

Improved the parts of the Fundamentals sections that were poorly explained

added a short section on the new-in-0.4 transaction management.

There wasn't a wall clock in the tutorial room, so despite making an effort to be aware of time I went 10 minutes over. Sorry, guys. :)

Jason Kirtland will be posting the slides from the Advanced SQLAlchemy tutorial soon.